Artist : Etienne GAUDET (1891-1963)

Title : Port of St Gilles Croix de Vie, Vendée 13/09/1962

Technical and support: watercolor on paper

Features of the work: Original painting signed lower left by the artist and titled, dated on the back

Dimensions: 32 x 23cm 

State : Good 

Origin : Workshop of the artist, the invoice engages the responsibility of the gallery as for the Authenticity of the work. 


Expert's comment: Etienne Gaudet's talent is to perceive with incredible vigor and intensity the mysteries of landscapes to better reveal them to us. His favorite subjects are the Loire Valley, Brittany and the south of France. Where some pass indifferent, the artist lights a flame with his colors and makes us aware of the beauty of things. We will therefore not be surprised to know that before painting, he liked to listen to the legends, stories and sayings of the past of the inhabitants. As a lover of nature and using the watercolor technique that does not allow for repentance, the artist captures these ephemeral moments that only the eye of an adult can detect.



Biography of the artist: Étienne GAUDET is a painter and engraver born in Château Chinon in the Nièvre and died in Blois in the Loir et cher. He has been painting since the age of 11, inspired by the landscapes of his native Morvan. In 1915, the artist was in Nevers and took his first painting lessons at the municipal school of fine arts. He then perfected his talent advised by artists like Fernand Chalandre who introduced him to engraving, but also by André Deslignères, Georges Tardy, Pierre Péradon, Maurice Locquin whose masters are those of the Barbizon school. Quickly it is the call of the Loire Valley which pushes him to go up the river and to paint all its aspects as well as the surrounding countryside from Nivernais to Touraine. The artist will enjoy an important regional notoriety. The regional and sometimes Parisian press will repeatedly praise the talent of the artist who will illustrate many books with his woodcuts. But all are unanimous, there is in his watercolors a poetry worthy of the greatest masters of the Barbizon school such as Gustave Courbet or Jean-François Millet.


Places that most inspired the artist: 


LOIRE VALLEY: Blois, Muides-sur-Loire, Beaugency, Chambord, Cheverny, Chailles

Candé-sur-Beuvron, St Bohaire, Molineuf, Romorantin, St Aignan-sur-Cher, St Sulpice, Saint-Lubin d'Averdon, Onzain, Orchaise, Beaugency, Montrichard, Montrevault, Foret de Russy, St Gervais-la-Foret , Valencia, Vineuil, Vilberfal


BRITTANY: Quiberon, Auray, Perros-Guirec, St Guirec Ploumanach, Paimpol, Carnac, Kernevel, Trebeurden, Locmiquel, Larmor


SOUTH OF FRANCE: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (St Raphael, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Eze, Fréjus...) Eastern Pyrenees (Palalda, Amelie-les-bains, Montbolo, Le Tech, Le Canigou, Le Perthus)


OTHER PLACES: Vendée (St Gervais, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Montrevault/L'evre, St Jean de Monts, Sion), Corrèze (Uzerche, Saint Ybard), Haute-Savoie (St Gervais les Bains)


This description has been drawn up by us following our expertise and the various reference works on the artist in our possession, any copy is therefore prohibited. 



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Information : For any questions, you can contact us at 06 20 26 92 55

Biography of the artist: Étienne GAUDET is a painter and engraver born in Château Chinon in the Nièvre and died in Blois in the Loir et cher. He has been painting since the age of 11, inspired by the landscapes of his native Morvan. In 1915, the artist was in Nevers and took his first painting lessons at the municipal school of fine arts. He then perfected his talent advised by artists like Fernand Chalandre who introduced him to engraving, but also by André Deslignères, Georges Tardy, Pierre Péradon, Maurice Locquin whose masters are those of the Barbizon school. Quickly it is the call of the Loire Valley which pushes him to go up the river and to paint all its aspects as well as the surrounding countryside from Nivernais to Touraine. The artist will enjoy an important regional notoriety.